(I think Strabo's right, Python's the best of the lot because it never takes itself seriously. Not to mention, who can't love the song finale?)

In the midst of discussing Hollywood movies (is that off topic?), here's something I stumbled over today - I often enjoy the Ancient History Bulletins, but this one is certainly a world away from "The Sheet":

The Legacy of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall: Gibbon’s Influence on the Conceptions of Late Antiquity and
the proto-Byzantine Empire

That'll larn us! (Strabo, I refuse to say "shined," but growing up in the Ozarks, instead of "that will teach you" while applying a belt to a screeching child, the locals yelled "That'll larn ya!" Same reaction to Gibbon)